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This supposed to be kinda like a project homepage.

I would like to invite others to work on a project that involves seperating the wheat from the chaffe:

Media and ephemera floods our brains with new babble all the time.

TedErnst and I have talked about this using the example of Times Square.

Now out of this flood of data, we need to distill the valuable morsels.

Another related concept is "Slow Discussions" (Tom Munnecke).

I have pointed the following URL to this "page": http://whatsold.net/

Please help! :D [nmw]

From NewMediaWorks?:

This is for figuring out what works WRT "new media".

I realize this is a broad statement -- and that's fine, because it's a broad field of endeavor.

No offense, but I've merged a couple of ShallowPages into this one. Too much RecentChanges-flooding. This should work fine as a project page, n'eh? -- ChrisPurcell

: Seems kinda hasty to me (deleted within hours, while I was out taking a walk) :O [nmw]

Figured I'd make the suggestion pre-emptively, as it would need more effort to merge the pages later. Hopefully you'll get better interaction if everything is in one place than if ideas get spread out between three (and perhaps more) pages. -- ChrisPurcell

I think it is a good idea, I just recently was encouraging BrandonCsSanders to think about ForestFires and possibly developing ideas on his HomePage a bit more before moving to their own pages. -- Best, MarkDilley

: Norb, don't take it personally. The culture at this wiki leans toward posting polished (or at least complete) essays rather than thinking out loud together. I bulled into it too when I first arrived here a couple of days ago and so am cooling my jets for a while. The key group norm I've taken away so far is that blaring onto RecentChanges is considered rude here. Each ShallowPage shows up on RecentChanges and so too many too fast turns it into a "Times Square" (to borrow your example from above). Welcome to MeatBall and don't take it personally -- BrandonCsSanders

Brandon, I don't think that is what they are saying. They are simply making a suggestion to collect all the ideas on a single page. This will avoid splitting attention and creating confusion, which will hurt you in the short and long term. Keeping focus on one page will improve your chances of attracting other interested people to work on the idea. Our polished essays have only gotten there after some degree of work. -- SunirShah

: Sunir, thanks for the clarification. I'm still getting used to contributing to a community wiki (rather than a personal wiki). -- BrandonCsSanders